Uber's internal systems were breached; a new federal cybersecurity grant program is announced; and D2iQ claims to be "Switzerland" of Kubernetes.

"A lot of companies are trying to get at a multi-cloud solution again, ... so it's really nothing unique," D2iQ CEO Tobi Knaup said.

Public cloud doesn't mean there, and on-prem doesn't mean here. "It's actually a way of working," Forrester analyst Lee Sustar said.

"We're trying to be doing good things for the industry [by] collapsing complexity," VMware Tanzu SVP Edward Hieatt said.

Many enterprises are using this model to better manage data sovereignty laws that require them to maintain strict control over their data.

Datadog found strong growth in the use of managed container platforms that take advantage of serverless concepts.

The move continues a growing push by security vendors toward bolstering DevSecOps teams, which has become important in light of recent exploits.

"We want to bring clarity on the open source side into what's happening in your environments," whether that's good news or bad, Cisco's Stephen Augustus said.

Intel's CEO touts AI superpowers; the cybersecurity market is forecasted to outgrow networking; and Palo Alto Networks talks ZTNA 2.0

The new project is designed to provide operators with “declarative, intent-based automation.”

The expanse of the open source ecosystem shows how healthy Kubernetes is, but it also brings about one of the community's largest challenges.

When punishing CISOs, “you're blaming the victims and not focusing on the actual people doing the criminal activity,” ON2IT SVP John Kindervag said.

Nokia introduced Edge Network Controller, an application built within the Kubernetes environment for local network management and automation.

Forrester said Google Cloud's weaknesses include its lack of a low-code development environment and minimal support for edge computing.

Stephen Augustus was previously a senior open source engineer at VMware and has a long history in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kubernetes communities.

Nutanix cut its global headcount by about 2.5%, primarily in sales and marketing jobs. “We expect this action to yield approximately $50 million in annual savings,” CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

There is no silver bullet for security in any context, and that applies to open RAN and cloud native technologies all the same.

I expect a handful of top trends and threats to dominate the discourse. And like just about everything else over the past 12 months, many of these have been

ONAP Honolulu introduces more cloud native functionality, early support for end-to-end 5G network slicing, and deeper integration with open RAN standards.

“Dish is the launch customer for Telco Cloud Platform RAN," VMware's Sachin Katti said. He also named Red Hat and Wind River as VMware's sole cloud-only competitors in vRAN.

“It’s clear that U.S. sanctions, chip shortages, and general anti-Chinese vendor sentiment are forcing Huawei to find a way to stay in business and reinvent itself," analyst Stéphane Téral

"Openness allows you to have visibility and it allows you to put your defense and your security where you see the threats might be coming,” Dish Network's Marc Rouanne

NEC is one of the earliest 5G core and RAN vendors to announce its commercial use of OpenShift, but many others are coming, Red Hat's Ian Hood said.

“We’re a pretty acquisitive company and so we are always looking for partners as the overall architecture disintermediates,” VMware's Sanjay Uppal said.